Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-27
TUESDAY ..SEPTR II, 1887.
VIC Are SectonaIists?

efforts in this behalf have not been in
vain. Our Cincinnati contemporary
has felt the force of the truths which
we have presented for its considera-
ton, and has attempted justification
OF its politically Giraffe course. One
of its objects is, Of course, to save
harmless its ally, General MALONE.
1t quotes from an article in tho Dis
Pa;aa the following aud othor para
graphs:
"Mahone II the representative in
This State OF the Republican party,
which is a sectional party, having no
good feeling, for Virginia or Nirginlans,
and bent upon regalning control OF the
Federal Government by fair means or
foul.
"Mahone is the advocate of the cleo
lion Of John Sherman to the presi-
dcncy Of the United Statcs-the same
John Sherman who SO recently in a
speech in Ohio referred to the wicked
rebellion, and declared that the south
on people had begun the War between
the States because MIR. Lincoln had
been elected President. Thus does
Sherman insult and traduce the people
OF the South, and thus does Malone
defy the public sentiment of his own
State.
And comments upon them, beginning
as follows:
"If the Republican party is sectional
il must be because it opposes the pc u
liar policy of the solid South
That's not Sc fer from the truth The
Republican pnity must be charac
tcrized as sectional because it attacks
the "solid South the southern peo-
pie rather than the principles and
policies OF the Democratic party. a
party that was not sectional could not
possibly fight upon the issues of war
which ended twenty years ago.
The southern States have ell the rights
that Ohio possesses. They are entitled
30 lie treated just MS Massachusetts, and
PENNSYLVANIA are treated. Who ever
load Of party stalking its chances OF
success upon the Objectionable habits
and customs, or upon the local laws, of
any Dorthein State ? What have the
northern people to do with the race
Irjudiccs Of the southern people -?
We quote The Cobnmerci0y-Gazettc
aga.n:
ccordinq to this we are to 81 on
and lMld ny history upon the iounia
tlon Il ut the southern rebellion was not
NlcLod but righteous, and that the war
ICsultcd IRON the invasion of the sOve-
1oipp soLihtrn States 10y the northern
hmCcs VINO were bred to destroy tine
hbeitv % Their (, low -cltiZeUs-L ncOin
foiciDg war upon AN innocent people. ."
Iy 40 means. What we ask is that
whether the rebellion was wicked :"
or not, it be let alone, now that it has
been over more than twenty years. We
don't ask anybody, North or South, to
endorse tie rebellion as "nghteous. "
We merely protest that it is time all
such quoftions had been remanded to
the limbo OF departed issues. Build
up your history to suit yourselves. Wen
buildup Ours to suit ourselves, YOuhaye
an immense advantage over us in this
matter, but We are nevertheless willing
to accept the verdict of posterlty. We
don't desire that any question shall be
raised as to the invasion of the South,
nor as TO MIR. LINCOLN, nor as to aught
else that involves the raising OF sec
tional prejudices. In a word, ours is a
national party ami the Republican Is a
sectional party. lhe one abhors sec
tional issges. The other bases its hopes
OF success upon soiidifyiug the stronger
against the weaker section.
il is with this latter party that Gen
eral MALONE has allied himself and it
is for this offence against his own peo-
pie that we arraigned him in the article
quoted from by our Cincinnati contem-
porary. We are pleased that it realizes
tie fact that MAHoNE's allies need de-
fersiye armor. We thank ii for the
party capital which it has furnished us
against its ally, General MALONE, in the
following. The Commercial Gazette
SAYS:
~ Intelligent citizens must see with
ont hr,hcr instruction than can be OBJ
tanned FROM the surface OF current
events that another Democratic Ad-
miu!straiion, backed by Democratic
Congress and Supreme Court. would
amount 30 the moral aud political con
quest Of the people and States that put
down the rebellion and as certainly
as sherman is already abused for as
s,it.nR the wickCdncss OF the rebellion
ans the justice OF the cause Of which
Abraham Lincoln was the leader, il
another Democratic President is elected
upGer the forms Of the Constitution
by the notification OF its substance
tie Buiternut and Copperhead and
Confederate hatreds and venoms
viii prevail, and it will become
sectional. improper, vindictiye, and
oisfeputable to have aided the cause
Of the National Union in the
days when ii was put in peril by south
ern rebellion; aud in the section that
had the benefit Of the virtues Of the
slave system and the prerogatiyes of an
arrogant proyincialism the only appre-
ciable result Of the war will be the aug-
mentatisn Of the intensity Of local feel
ing and the presumption OF personal
(, coHceits, while the practical effect Of
the alleged emancipation OF the colored
race will be the increase Of the politi.
cal potency OF the master caste, which
is The came Az before the war ia spirit
and In tendency and in the purpose 10
rule or ruin. !"
There's the ADVERTISEMENTS pro-
grainme drawn up by the leading Sasa-
NAN organ In the United States. What
NY The people Of Virginia 70 General